What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

Wait a minute, when I think about this, I always feel like I'm being controlled and trained by that guy?

The Yamada fairy raised her little face with a slightly puzzled expression.

"Fairy, fairy, you are going to be a master of light novels, how can you be so depraved as to be deceived by a guy like Assistant-kun! You must be more reserved!"

She warned herself this in her heart, and her face once again put on the indifferent, cold and unapproachable temperament she had when she met Si Ji.

Just then, a burst of powerful music interrupted her thoughts.

"It must be the old brother again... eh?"

It wasn't until she picked up the phone and saw the incoming call on the screen that the girl made a surprised sound.

She cleared her throat and answered the phone as if nothing had happened: "Hello, Assistant, what's going on?"

[What, what? Are you so busy that you forgot to read it? Come down quickly and have dinner! ]

"Eh? Is it this time already?"

Fairy Yamada hurriedly checked the time and found that although it was indeed time for dinner, it was still a little earlier than usual.

[I just found where Shiina Mashiro is. I'll tell you in detail later.]

"Really? So how was your conversation with her? She must be Kashiwagi Eri-sensei!"

[Although it is very likely, it is hard to say at the moment. I haven't met her today. We agreed to prepare a richer dinner today, so I came back a little earlier.]

"Since we've already found it, why don't we just tie up Kashiwagi Eri-sensei today... ahem, and have a good discussion about cooperation?"

[Because preparing dinner for you is more important. ]

"Idiot, it would have been better if we could have caught Kashiwagi Eri earlier. We don't have that much time left for publication..."

Although she said so, the expression on the girl's face was no longer cold and arrogant, and only a touch of cuteness full of girlish feelings remained.

Chapter 53: Dessert

The Yamada fairy, who still had a girlish heart, washed up, changed her clothes, and then accepted the invitation to Shiki's room.

Compared to her own room where she just moved in and has hardly ever cooked, Yamada Fairy actually prefers Shiki's room. Although there are not many furniture and other things, it is kept quite tidy. At first glance, the furnishings in the house are simple and rustic in style, but upon closer inspection, they have a sense of simplicity and elegance.

——Of course, it is not ruled out that this is just Yamada Fairy’s subjective feeling of loving the whole thing.

The most important thing is that in this situation, Shiki's house is not like the girl's own room, which is as dull as a well-decorated model house. It is full of life, or gives people a feeling of "home". It has some kind of inexplicable special effect on the Yamada fairy who left his home a long time ago, lives alone, and moves frequently.

In fact, Washimiya Shiki has only taken over this apartment for more than two years, and he was busy traveling most of the time before that, so he didn't live here for very long.

But living in too many luxurious presidential suites is like eating too much meat and fish and getting sick of it, so life in Washimiya-ryo becomes precious.

Si Ji only lives here in his true form. In other words, he is most relaxed here. In a sense, although he owns properties all over the world under his various aliases, this is the only place that can be called "home" after all.

I'm getting off topic. Today, Si Ji's house is different from usual. The house is filled with a wonderful fragrance.

The girl, who is quite good at cooking, couldn't tell what the fragrance was for a moment. It was neither the aroma of frying oil and meat, nor the aroma of stewing ingredients. But her body instinctively realized that it was the smell of food. Even just smelling the fragrance made people's appetite grow.

The girl, who had put most of her energy into the novel and had no appetite at all, suddenly felt her stomach suddenly deflate and make a gurgling sound.

This made Yamada's face slightly red. She covered her stomach and looked vigilantly towards the kitchen. Seeing that Shiki didn't seem to hear her indecent voice, she felt relieved and quickly moved to the table in the living room.

Just as she sat down and gathered her skirt, Si Ji brought a plate of what looked like some kind of crackers and placed it in front of her: "It will take a while for the main course. If you're hungry, eat this first."

"When did you get here?!" Yamada Fairy was startled.

“Probably from the time you craned your neck to look towards the kitchen, your face flushed, and your stomach growling.” Shiki answered politely like a butler of a noble family.

"..." The girl's expression became wooden.

"Also, the way you secretly swallowed your saliva was very cute. I took a photo to keep as a souvenir." Si Ji said as he took out his phone from his pocket and showed the silly-looking photo to the girl: "I think it would be great to set it as a screen saver to appreciate your cute look."

"..."

The girl heard the sound of something breaking, probably the blood vessels in her brain or the string called reason.

"Ms. Yamada, that pair of knives and forks will be used to eat the tender roasted wagyu beef cubes later. You can eat the pumpkin crisps with chopsticks or your hands. It's rude to point these things at others."

"Don't worry, I still understand the dining etiquette of Western food." The girl said in a deep voice.

"Oh, that's great..."

"First, stab the assistant who is trying to escape with a fork, and then use the dinner knife to elegantly cut open his trachea, right?"

"Are you Hannibal?"

"I just think that instead of letting such photos spread, it is better for you to keep quiet for the sake of justice." The girl began to sharpen the knife on the fork with a click.

"Don't make silencing someone sound so righteous!"

In the end, Siji still deleted the stupid photos of the girl obediently under her thorny gaze.

But after deleting it, Si Ji still said with regret: "I originally wanted to print three copies for preservation, viewing and preaching."

"Don't you have any idea about the right of your own image?" Yamada Fairy said unhappily, "And the photo is ugly."

“I think it’s a pretty good shot…”

"No way, Dane!" The girl made a cross on her chest and refused loudly.

But perhaps because Shiki’s expression of loss was too realistic, Yamada the Fairy hesitated for a moment and then said, “If you really want, I can take a picture for you…”

Si Ji seemed to be completely unaware of the girl's inner softness. His face was full of lamentation. He said with a sigh: "But then wouldn't I be unable to show off my photography skills? As the saying goes, every boy has a Teacher Chen in his heart. Can you understand my reluctance?"

"No," the girl, who felt that her kindness had gone to waste, replied expressionlessly, "Rather than that, Mr. Chef, you should just go back and cook your meal."

"Why does your attitude seem to have suddenly become cold?"

"Your illusion."

"Well, I understand. It's the heavy day that girls encounter every month, right?" Si Ji pounded his palms, his face full of sudden realization.

"No! Go cook your meal!"

The girl gritted her teeth and spoke word by word.

Before she could pick up her knife and fork again, Si Ji had already "fled".

"Did this guy come here on purpose to make me angry?"

If when she first came to Shiki's place, she was still mentally tired due to the long hours of brain-consuming work, then now after Shiki's disturbance, Yamada Fairy unexpectedly felt that she was much more energetic. At least she didn't have to worry about falling asleep suddenly in the middle of a meal.

But even if that was true, the girl still felt angry when she thought of Shiki's straight-forward look just now...

She picked up a piece of crispy food and took a big bite as if to vent all her dissatisfaction. The extremely crispy texture instantly made her feel refreshed.

Mingming Si Ji said that this is pumpkin crisp, but this biscuit-like crisp not only has the unique sweetness of pumpkin, but also a sweet fragrance similar to chestnuts, and sesame seeds are sprinkled on the surface of the crisp. The two complement each other and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. By the time you swallow it, the unique mellow yet refreshing taste of pumpkin has filled your entire mouth, giving you an unusual sense of satisfaction.

The girl had an expression like a female knight who had been killed by a goblin, and her hand that picked up the crisps couldn't stop at all.

"Gu, damn, why is it so delicious..."

Chapter 54: Food Blind Box

Crispy is just the beginning.

After that, it was fried food, or tempura - Shiki wasn't quite sure why the Japanese liked fried food so much, it seemed like they could roll anything in tempura powder and throw it into the pan to fry, just like they could cut anything up and eat it as sashimi.

However, in addition to adapting to local customs, considering that the main dish, Wagyu beef, is also an oily food, the tempura this time not only controls the oil well, but also uses mostly refreshing wild vegetables, such as aralia sprouts and wild bracken.

After that, the main course was tender roasted wagyu cubes.

Whether Wagyu beef tastes good or not actually has a lot to do with personal taste, and because marbled Wagyu beef is basically full of fat, it is easy to get sick of eating it alone. Therefore, a small dish of Wagyu beef cubes is not only slowly roasted at low temperature to fully ensure the Maillard reaction, but also fried in butter to bring out the rich milky flavor.

Finally, pair it with several dipping sauces carefully prepared for each season to ensure that every bite has a different texture and flavor.

Of course, since Si Ji is entertaining guests at home, unlike the stingy restaurants, there is plenty of beef, so if you really eat to your heart's content, you will definitely feel a little sick of it.

But it doesn't matter.

"I'm full..." Yamada Fairy put down her knife and fork and wiped her rosy lips with a napkin: "I was distracted by the delicious food and ate a little too much."

"Then next is dessert." Si Ji put away her plate and walked slowly towards the kitchen.

"Well, no thanks. I'm already very full and can't have any more room for dessert." The girl touched her belly. Although she was not a person who counted calories before eating anything, the amount she consumed today was indeed a bit over the limit.

"No, you're wrong." Si Ji smiled mysteriously: "Today's dessert is the theme."

That's right, even the tender roasted wagyu beef cubes for the main course were just something to fill your stomach.

For today's highlight, even level 8 cooking skills, that is, the cooking ability of the "master" level, is just a prerequisite.

Just like Si Ji said, what he has to do this time is to do his best to create a masterpiece that will make the other party feel "Oh wow".

Yamada Fairy is not only a famous light novelist, but also a standard rich loli with the income from her novels (14 years old is still within the broad category of loli), and she comes from a wealthy family. Although she certainly doesn't eat meat and fish every day, she must have been to many high-end restaurants.

In addition, she has good attainments in cooking and is quite experienced in handling seafood. She must have eaten a lot of caviar, king crab and other foods.

It can be said that apart from some high-priced ingredients that are purely hyped up for the sake of hype, there are few things on earth that the Yamada fairy has not eaten.

Master-level cooking skills can indeed turn ordinary food into something magical, but for high-end ingredients that are excellent in themselves, most cooking methods serve to highlight their original flavor.

It is true that masters can, through the combination of various spices, create a taste that is more pleasing than the ingredients themselves, or in a broad sense, more delicious, but that is purely the effect of the seasoning. If you throw a pair of slippers in it and it will taste good, then the ingredients themselves have no meaning.

So how can we do better?

The most obvious way is to continue to improve the cooking level. When you reach level 9, the limit of human cooking skills, you can match the flavor of the seasoning and the flavor of the ingredients themselves to complement each other to become the "most delicious" dishes on earth, touching the limit of common sense.

If it continues to improve and reaches the maximum level of 10, it will exceed the limits of normal humans and break the barriers of common sense, which is completely incredible.

When reaching this level, any stir-fried cabbage will taste like herbal jelly. There is no limit to the taste. Every dish will become more and more delicious in his hands!

Can you imagine that no matter how much you overestimate the taste of a dish, when you eat it you will feel that your imagination is too poor and you can't imagine how delicious it is!

Since the author can’t imagine it, I’ll stop here for now.

So the question is, since Siji doesn't have any skill upgrade coupons and the level 9 cooking skill hasn't appeared in the store (even if it did, he probably can't afford it), where does Siji get the confidence from?

The answer is ingredients.

Occasionally, Si Ji would find some not-too-expensive but very interesting consumables in the system mall, and he would always be tempted to buy them.

But Si Ji himself actually has a bit of squirrel syndrome. For example, when playing games, he always hoards a lot of potions, and calculates them carefully on the road and is reluctant to use any of them. As a result, he still has a few bottles of potions left after defeating the final boss.

The same is true in reality. He always feels it's a pity to use up those consumables carelessly, so he keeps them piled up in the inventory. If it weren't for the fact that the time and space in the inventory are almost static, many things in it would probably rot and expire.

So he had to organize his inventory frequently and reluctantly clear out some unnecessary things, otherwise he would have no room for them.

The thing used to entertain Yamada the Fairy today is one of them. It is called the "Food World Ingredients Pack". There are three colors from low to high: white, blue and purple - there may be more, but only these three colors have been brushed out in Four Seasons - after opening it, you can randomly get a food world ingredient. In fact, it is essentially a blind box of ingredients.

The ingredients in the gourmet world have a "deliciousness" that is hard to match by ingredients on Earth. Many of them, even if simply boiled, are much more delicious than the signature dishes of the highest-standard restaurants on Earth.

However, the more advanced the culinary ingredients, the more difficult it is to handle. Ordinary people can cook and eat white ingredients casually, but blue ingredients require a cooking skill level of 6 or above, which is probably the level of being able to easily handle puffer fish after training. Therefore, the level 8 cooking skill that can handle purple ingredients is a prerequisite for today's banquet.

"Come and try some rainbow jelly."

Shiki brought a plate of shaky-looking juice pudding to the girl and spoke expectantly.

"You don't look very healthy..."

Fairy Yamada murmured as she looked at the pudding in front of her. A rainbow-colored sheen flowed on the surface of the pudding. In the girl's perception, it seemed that pure fruit juice pudding could not produce such bright colors. If you want to make it that beautiful, you almost need to add some artificial colors.

"Just think of it as me tricking you," Si Ji did not rush to argue, but said as if coaxing a child, "Try taking a bite."

The girl glanced at Si Ji's strange smile, and finally stretched out her spoon and scooped a spoonful of jelly.

"It feels a lot softer than I thought..." She muttered in surprise before putting the jelly into her mouth.

The next moment, the girl froze, and the spoon in her hand fell onto the table with a clang.

Chapter 55: Rainbow Fruit

As the name suggests, rainbow jelly is of course made from 'rainbow fruit'.

Although this thing has an unusual fragrance that can make animals eat it regardless of their own safety even if they are being preyed on, it is actually not suitable for direct consumption by humans, or in other words, it is not suitable for direct consumption by humans on Earth.

The main reason is that it is too sweet. According to the instructions and recipes that come with the blind box, how sweet is the rainbow fruit?

Just one drop of juice can turn an entire swimming pool's worth of water into the level of ordinary juice.

If ordinary people on Earth want to eat this stuff directly, they probably have to prepare their own insulin...

But when rainbow jelly is made according to the recipe, and the overly thick juice is diluted and solidified with gelatin to a level suitable for consumption, the taste of the rainbow fruit, which combines the advantages of almost all fruits, suddenly stands out.

After taking a bite of the jelly, the Yamada fairy felt as if he was wandering in a sea of ​​countless fruits.